TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3439, 19 February 1890, Page 3

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old Bayingthat phymJcians are a.'olass of men who pour 'ALrugs, of.whichlhev know little, v~to bodies of which they know - less. This is both true "and unrue at the same time. There are good and poor lawyers, and mi and poor doctors. Tho trouble with these medical : gentlemen as a profession i) th«t they aro clannish, and apt Ij be conceited;.' They don't like ti- be beaten at their own'.trade by - outsiders' who havo never studied medicine.. They thereforo pay, by .their frequont failures,; tho penalty of refusing iuatnictiilknniess the teacher bears their own '.:. An eminent physician—Br Bvnwn--Bequard, of ,Paris-states the fact accurately when ho says: "The medical profession are so hulmd'np in their self-conu'deuco and cone, it that tluy allow the diamond truths . of science be picked up by persons entirely outside their ranks." Woejve a most interesting incident, 'which illustrates this important truth. The steamship V Concordia" of the Donaldson Lino, sailed, from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board aea fireman a Man namtd Richard \\':,ih , • of Glasgow. Ho had been a fireman , for fourtconycars-on various ships sail- , in; from America, China and Indi;i , Ho had borne the hard and exhaußtmg , labour, and had been healthy and i strong. On the trip wo now name he , began for the first lime to feel weak and ; ill. His appetite failed and he sullored , from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste ; jP.tho mouth and costiveness and ; irregularity of tho bowels. Sometimes ; when at work ho had attacks of giddiness ; but supposed it to bo caused by the ; lieat of the tire-room. Quite often he ' was sick and felt like vomiting and had some pain in tho hoad. Later duriug • thjApassage he grew worso, and when it* ship reached Halifax he was place'! in tho Victoria General Hospital, and the • ship sailed away without him, The ■ house surgeon gavo him 6ome powders ■ to stop the vomiting, and the next day J the visiting physician rave him a mix- ] turo to take every four hours, Within J two days Wade was so much worse that ' J the doctors'stopped both the powdors and tho mixture. A mouth passed, tho ' J poorfireman getting worse and worse. Then caino another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for tho noxt fivo months. He gave other medicines } but not ranch relief. Nearly all lha ' J time Wado suffered great torture ; ho "* digested nothing, throwing up all ho ate. ' There was terrible pain : in jthe bowels, "• burning heat in the throat, heartburn, ' and racking headache. The patient was ' now taking a mixture every four hours, T powders one after each incal to digest T the food, operating pills one every night, , and temperature pills two each night to stop the cold sweats.' If drugs conld euro him at all,. Kichard had an Idea that he took enough to do it. But on the other hand plourisy set in and the ioclort took ninety ounces of matter fmku right .iMt, and then told him sure to die. Five month more jj, . and there was another change of visiting physicians. The new ono gave Wade a mixture which he - wlimadi him tremble like a leaf ona int.

At this crisis Wado's Scotch blood asserted itselt. Ho refused to stand anynioro dosing, and- told- the doctors that if he must die he could die as well without them as with them. By this time a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and lio thero for days. Our friend from Glasgow, was liko n wreck r>n a shoal, fast going to pieces, We ill let him tell- the rest of his experience in the words in which he communicated it to tho prcfls. He Bays; " Whon.l was in this stato a lady whom I ; bad never seen caniuto the hospital and talked with me. Bho proved to- bo an angel uf mercy, for without her I should not now bo alive She told mo of a medicine callod Mother-Boigel'i Curativo Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day, I started with it, without consultint' tho dootor, and inonly a few.fays' lime Imi ov.l of bed calling for ham andtggs firbrtatfmi. From that time, keeping on with Mother rJeigel's greit roinody, I got woll fast, and was soon able to leave the hiwiMand come home to Glasgow, I now fee? as if a was in another world, and have no illnesßof any kind." Tho above facts are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his ; own conclusion, We deem it ofefeti o use no names, although Mr Wade Rave them In hia original deposition, Hi« address is No. 244, Stobcross Street, Glasgow, whero letters will reach,him. - i' • ■ Kmiok.